Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of Aug. 27 you pay a well deserved tribute to Raymond M. Hood. I knew him very well. He was a lovable companion and a splendid man to work with, and were he here today he would be the first to take up his pen to correct a grave injustice which you have done to his associate, John Mead Howells...
...While we recognize the propriety of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration furnishing aid to those who may be in temporary distress as a result of involuntary unemployment, we are convinced that the furnishing of financial aid by the Government to men who are voluntarily unemployed is fraught with grave dangers to our economic and social stability. . . . The furnishing of relief to strikers, if continued as a national policy, will . . . not only incite industrial strife but will materially increase the number of unemployed...
Nura's evanescent, occasionally rhymed tale traces the history of a grave, unearthly, mild-mannered girl from birth beneath a Buttermilk Tree to motherhood. More interesting to most readers will be Nura's black and white pictures which achieve charm by combining a simple mysticism with an awareness of actuality. Animals, playthings, schoolbooks surround the solemn child as she grows up. At 15 she stares into space, a mirror on her lap. She emerges into starry light, the world at her feet, on her bridal night. "Full Bloom" shows her, arms outstretched in the shape of a cross...
Most distasteful to Italy's Cupid was a grave irregularity last week at Avellino. Rosino Consolazio, 19, agreed with her fiance Montalberti Filcorate, 23, to end their engagement in a duel. On the field of honor she shot him through the head, received a flesh wound in the cheek...
Theirs is the only industry in which a man already in his grave is a prospect. Even though the average price of a tombstone dropped from $500 to $350 as Depression deepened, many a man preferred to leave his loved one's grave unmarked until he could afford a memorial. These unmarked graves are the industry's backlog, each a potential sale...